©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.This dataset contains counts of infaunal organism Phyla from BOWLS moorings deployed in April of 2013 and recovered in June of 2014. Phyla sampled: Annelida, Arthropoda,Chordata, Cnidaria, Echinodermata, Kinorhynca, Mollusca, Nemertea, and Platyhelminthes. Also included are the mooring identifiers, substrate type (control, wood, whale-bone), latitude, longitude, depth, and deployment and recovery dates.
Immediately upon recovery of the benthic landers (moorings), wood substrates were transferred to buckets containing chilled, filtered seawater. Following the collection of ecosystem function measurements, each wood block was sub-sectioned into quarters, and fixed whole in 95% ethanol, 4% formaldehyde and frozen.
Wood quarters fixed in 4% formaldehyde were quantitatively sorted in the lab using a stereomicroscope. The “substrate” is the experimental treatment type: Wood. Phylum counts are the number of individuals (or heads for incomplete specimens) per three replicate (quarter, 9x9x9 cm each) substrates at each mooring.
PDF image of the mooring deployment sites.
Smith, C. R., Halanych, K. M. (2021) Infauna counts from BoWLs moorings deployed and recovered from R/V Oceanus cruises OC1304A and OC1406B off the Coast of Oregon from 2013-2014 (BOWLS project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2018-01-22 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.724434.1 [access date]
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